Nazi
is a short term for the National Socialist German Workers Party, a
right-wing political party formed in 1919 primarily by unemployed
German veterans of World War 1. Adolf
Hitler became head of the party in 1921, and under his leadership
the party eventually became a powerful political force in German
elections by the early 1930's. The Nazi party ideology was largely
based on nationalism and racism. They promoted Germany as superior to
all other nations and promised to restore it to greatness, while
championing a scientific theory of racism, in which the Aryan
(German) people were racially superior to all others. In 1933, Hitler
assumed power in Germany and he ended German democracy and severely
restricted basic rights, such as freedom of speech, press, and
assembly. He established a brutal dictatorship through a reign of
terror.

Who did the Nazis define as
Jews?

Immediately following
the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, the Nazis issued the official definition
of a Jew. According to German law, anyone with three Jewish
grandparents was a Jew, as was anyone with two Jewish grandparents. In
addition, anyone married to a Jewish person or who had one Jewish
parent was also considered a Jew in the eyes of the law.

How did Hitler take over Europe?

How did a naturally lazy,
friendless, minimally educated homeless man take over Europe? And
how did such an advanced society allow itself to be seduced and then
destroyed by its own capacity for senseless barbarity? The Germans
in the thirties were seduced by the glittering success of Hitler in
creating jobs, generating a vibrant economy and restoring Germany's
military might. William Shirer, who was on the scene in Germany
during these critical years, candidly sums up the mood of the
country at this juncture: "Not many Germans lost sleep over
the arrests of a few thousand pastors and priests or over the
quarreling of the various Protestant sects .." It was this
apathy and moral indifference in Germany that empowered Hitler and
fueled his military juggernaut that was poised to roll inexorably
over Europe.

Why did Hitler hate the Jews?

Holocaust happened because Hitler
and the Nazis were racist. They believed the German people were a
'master race', who were superior to others. They even created a
league table of 'races' with the Aryans at the top and with Jews, Gypsies
and black people at the bottom. These 'inferior' people were seen as
a threat to the purity and strength of the German nation. When the
Nazis came to power they persecuted these people, took away their
human rights and eventually decided that they should be exterminated.

How did Adolf
Hitler die?

With Germany lying in
ruins after six devastating years of war, and with defeat imminent,
Hitler decided to take his own life. Early on the morning on
April 29, 1945, in a civil ceremony in his bunker, Hitler married
his mistress of many years, Eva Braun. The next day at a little
after 3:30 p.m., they bit into thin glass vials of cyanide. As he
did so, Hitler also shot himself in the head with a 7.65 mm Walther
pistol. The handful of
remaining Nazi faithfuls trooped uneasily into his underground
study, surveyed his still-warm remains-slouched on a couch, with
blood trickling from the sagging lower jaw, and a gunshot wound in
the right temple-and sniffed the bitter-almonds smell hanging in the
air. Wrapped in a gray army blanket, he was carried up to the
shell-blasted Chancellery garden. Gasoline was slopped over him in a
reeking crater and ignited while his staff hurriedly saluted and
backed down into the shelter.

How was SS
Reichsführer Himmler captured?

Heinrich
Himmler fled Berlin after the German surrender on May 21, 1945 in
the disguise of a discharged Gestapo agent with moustache shaved and
wearing an eye patch, but unbeknownst to him, the Allies had set a
warrant out for the immediate arrest of any member who worked in an
association that shared affiliation with his name. After being
captured by the Allies, Heinrich Himmler committed suicide by biting
a vial of cyanide that he had hidden in his mouth.The doctors
attempted to remove the poison from his stomach by causing him to
vomit, but with no success. After a 12-minute long death throws, he
died. Three days later, the British buried anonymously his remains
somewhere in a forest near Lüneburg.